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You think you knew what a physicist’s life is like? Well you have never seen it like this. Experience a typical day for a Czech physicist, as you…

Today, 11 February, is International Day of Women and Girls in Science. This year we have asked female researchers at Nikhef two questions: Who or what inspires you…

Today, Maria Bader will defend her PhD thesis named Seismic and Newtonian noise modeling for Advanced Virgo and Einstein Telescope at the Free University Amsterdam. In this newest…

In a laboratory in Paris, a French physicist has very accurately determined the value of a number that shapes the universe. The measurement offers new insight into the…

Renovation work on the Nikhef building in Amsterdam is expected to begin in the first half of 2021 and last until 2023. During this period, different parts of…

‘It’s just a matter of taking initiative, and you will get there’ For years, the HiSPARC outreach project has brought cosmic ray research into schools. But the last…

A word you can easily win a game of Scrabble with in Dutch: achtergrondzwaartekrachtsgolven or gravitational wave background in English. But what is this phenomenon? In an article…

In the latest edition of PAPERCLIP, PhD student Mick Mulder of Nikhef’s LHCb group explains what his thesis is about. Mick’s thesis defence is online on Friday 15th…

It all started with a Big Bang, but what exactly did it look like? A group of scientists will take it upon themselves to try to take a…

This timelapse from July until December captures the progress of the construction of the high-tech floor for ETpathfinder at Maastricht University’s Faculty of Science and Engineering, as well…

After seven successful editions, CERN Beamline for Schools 2021 is ready to start. This physics competition offers high-school students the unique opportunity to conduct a physics experiment in…

In this most recent edition of PAPERCLIP Broos Vermeulen explains his PhD thesis, Search for production of charginos and neutralinos with a small mass gap to the lightest…

On 27 November, the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) and the Virgo detector virtually open their doors. Discover the wonderful world of gravitational waves and sign up for this…

Video recordings of Nikhef’s cloud chamber play a central role in an art project by the Dutch-Ukrainian artist Alexandra Hunts. Recently the project COSMIC_RADIATION_11COBALTBLUE had its premiere in…

The video channel of RTV 3Heuvelland, the regional broadcaster for the municipalities of Eijsden-Margraten, Gulpen-Wittem and Vaals, has shared a video about Einstein Telescope. In it, Nikhef researcher…

Dark matter is the greatest enigma of contemporary physics, and many researchers around the world are working on an answer. Also at Nikhef in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Nikhef…

On October 21, the TV programme EenVandaag broadcasted an item about the Einstein Telescope. Nikhef researchers Frank Linde, Gideon Koekoek and Jacco de Vries talked about the ambitious…

‘Strange, this is where the practical rooms were’. Physicist Marcel Vreeswijk stands in an empty theatre hall at CREA, in the diamond-cutting factory where the Physics department was…

Maastricht University will become the first Dutch university to enter the IBM Q Network, a community of Fortune 500 companies, academic institutions, startups and national research labs working…

A gravitational wave detector is a very complex experiment made up of technological challenges and unique components that have to reach an optimal balance, but above all it…